Here Comes Honey Boo Boo cancelled by TLC

It’s a honey boo-hoo day for Honey Boo Boo fans. TLC has cancelled the controversial reality series Here Comes Honey Boo Boo after four seasons amid allegations that Shannon-Thompson family matriarch — and mother of four daughters — June Shannon had resumed a relationship with a registered sex offender following her recent split with Mike “Sugar Bear” Thompson.

“TLC has cancelled the series Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and ended all activities around the series, effective immediately,” TLC said in a statement to a number of media outlets. “Supporting the health and welfare of these remarkable children is our only priority. TLC is faithfully committed to the children’s ongoing comfort and well-being.”

Shannon issued a number of responses via on youngest daughter Alana Thompson’s official Facebook page.

“I want to make a post trying to clear up the rumors remember you can’t believe everything you read!” she wrote. “Ppl sell stories to the tabloid everyday that r false! It isnt true i promise my kids r #1 priority over anything else and I would never put them in danger period over this or anything else they r my life this is my past I left him 10 yrs ago for it and I wouldn’t go back.”

Later, she posted a “truth video” message addressing her connection to former beau Mark McDaniel and TLC’s decision to pull the show.

Spun off from Alana’s over-caffeinated appearance on another TLC firebrand series, Toddlers & Tiaras, Here Comes Honey Boo Boo featured the antics of the precocious aspiring pageant queen, her parents and three sisters in rural McIntyre, Georgia. The show fostered a love-hate relationship with viewers. Fans enjoyed the family’s unique — and frequently mud-covered — brand of togetherness, while detractors questioned most of their distinctly down lifestyle.

But even longtime fans were beginning to wonder about the show’s continued viability as its ringlet-haired centerpiece grew older and dropped her pageant activities, older sister Anna married and moved away with her husband and child, and — most recently — Shannon and Thompson decided to end their live-in relationship.